Another nail in the coffin of Young Earth Creationism: Limestone formation. The rate of formation demolishes Noah's flood. [Spirituality & Religion]
Lime stone forms and deposits at a few different rates depending on temperature, water depth and conditions. I.E. it forms fastest in warm, calm, shallow seas. Young earthers are already in trouble because the Great Flood was anything but calm, shallow or warm.
Unfortunately for young earthers, this utterly precludes the Noachian flood. The rate of precipitation is just too slow. Young earthers hold that the earth is 6000 years old and Noah's flood happened just 2400 years ago. That's just not enough time, to account for the amount of limestone we see.
To put it in perspective, if we assume the FASTEST POSSIBLE formation rate for limestone, multiply that by TEN and then say the flood actually lasted five THOUSAND years and you [i]still [/i]end up with .02% of the limestone we see today.
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What you stated here is all true of course. But I don't understand why everyone is so driven to prove a religion is right or wrong. It's faith. Its something you believe in because it works for you. It's personal. If a person chooses to believe the Creation version of the Bible I don't want him in my face trying to prove to me it's real. But I also don't want to get in his face telling him it's not real. It's a bit mean spirited.
